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‘Secularism was an outcome of 20th century humanistic radicalism.’ Comment on this statement.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

The statement captures the moment secularism acquired its militant, egalitarian voice, but mistakes that moment for its origin. Secularism as a political settlement is far older than the twentieth century, and in India it also draws on an indigenous genealogy of coexistence that no European radicalism supplied.

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  • Why the claim is historically too narrow
  • India's own genealogy
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